DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.graphengine.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2020

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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